Sven's team talks

England's great leader will step up his efforts to get Fifa to delay the deadline for World Cup squad selection at talks in Dusseldorf.

Sven will raise the hot topic at a meeting of World Cup coaches.

At present, the May 15 deadline is before England's final warm-up games.

And Football Association executive director David Davies said: "We have some confidence there is considerable support among the nations taking part."

So no chance of getting the extension, then.

The ever-reasonable (no, honest) Fifa president Sepp Blatter has hinted the deadline could be extended and blurted: "This deadline has been fixed but it's a question for the organising committee of the Fifa World Cup and this will be on the agenda for their meeting of 15 March and we will discuss it then."

Germany's Jurgen Klinsmann is backing Sven (always a first) and Holland's gaffer Marco van Basten is also believed to be behind delaying the naming of the squads.

The current deadline is more than three weeks before England's opener against Paraguay but also falls before the Champions League final.